Picture this: thousands of years ago, before Lake Huron was, well, a lake, it was a massive stretch of dry land where early Americans hunted caribou. Fast forward to today, and that land is now underwater—but the evidence of ancient life is still down there, perfectly preserved in the depths.
A decade ago, researchers from the University of Michigan made a wild discovery: ancient hunting structures hidden beneath the lake. It was a huge deal at the time, but since then, they’ve been quietly piecing together even crazier findings—stone tools, ancient trees with their roots still intact, and even 9,500-year-old seeds preserved in underwater peat bogs.
Here’s where it gets even weirder: the tools they’ve found don’t match anything else from the same time period in the Great Lakes region. Plus, they found flakes of volcanic obsidian from Oregon—meaning these early Great Lakes people had some kind of connection with people thousands of miles away.
Because it’s been underwater for thousands of years, everything is frozen in time, untouched by modern pollution or destruction, similar top the ash covering Pompeii. And now, scientists are running DNA tests to figure out exactly what animals roamed this prehistoric world.
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